Dry anaerobic digestion of the fine particle fraction of mechanically-sorted organic fraction of municipal solid waste in laboratory and pilot reactor

2021 ◽  
Vol 136 ◽  
pp. 83-92
Author(s):  
Panagiotis Basinas ◽  
Jiří Rusín ◽  
Kateřina Chamrádová
1993 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 121-132 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. Vallini ◽  
F. Cecchi ◽  
P. Pavan ◽  
A. Pera ◽  
J. Mata-Alvarez ◽  
...  

The paper deals with the semi-dry anaerobic digestion of municipal solid waste followed by composting as finishing treatment of the digested sludge. The integration of the anaerobic and aerobic treatments was studied as approach to close the water balance of the semi-dry anaerobic digestion process and to remove the phytotoxicity of the digested effluent. This study evaluated the response of the anaerobic effluent to the co-composting post-processing step, whether the anaerobic sludge came from mesophilic semi-dry digestion or thermophilic semi-dry nethanization. Evaluation of the strategy adopted was carried out in terms of performance of aerobic stabilization and its incidence on the economy of the overall treatment and the water balance of the process. Co-composting gave best results when integrated with thermophilic digestion.


2021 ◽  
Vol 238 ◽  
pp. 01007
Author(s):  
Elena Rossi ◽  
Isabella Pecorini ◽  
Renato Iannelli

The hydraulic retention time (HRT) is a key parameter in dry-anaerobic digestion to set during the reactor configuration in order to achieve the optimal biogas production. For this reason, the study compared the results of two experimental tests operating with an HRT of 23 and 14 days. During the tests, the feedstock was organic fraction of municipal solid waste with a solid content of 33% and the digester was a pilot-scale plug-flow reactor operating in thermophilic condition. The highest specific biogas production of 311.91 Nlbiogas kg-1 d-1 was achieved when the HRT was set to 23 days. On the contrary, the highest methane production rate of 1.43 NlCH4 l-1 d-1 was achieved for an HRT of 14 days. In addition, the volatile solids removal (49.15% on average) and the energy content o(4.8 MJ kg-1 on average) were higher for HRT 23 days than for HRT14 days. The results indicated that in dry-anaerobic digestion of organic fraction of municipal solid waste, 23 days is a suitable HRT for energy recovery.


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